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Graduate Pendulum on a Cart - Is There a Max Swing Angle?
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High School Can a stiffer spring help my Newton Scooter travel 1.5 meters?
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High School Is a bicycle or dirtbike an example of f=ma?
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Undergrad Mathematical problem is classical question
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Undergrad How to Calculate Force from Drop Testing Blades on Cloth?
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Satellite Collision: What Are Your Thoughts?
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Undergrad Two Balls Dropped: Separate or Together?
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High School Distance-Time Graphs: Negative Gradient Explained
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Undergrad Why Does the Hammer Appear to Change Rotation Direction in Mid-Air?
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Undergrad Calculating Horse Race Energy & Power
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High School Clouds are water liquid, not vapour, why it don't fall down?
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Undergrad How is horizontal range affected?
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Undergrad What is the Mechanical Energy Available in an Automotive Shock Absorber?
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Graduate Energy of driven damped oscillator
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Undergrad Stress due to rotation in a ring mounted on a shaft
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Undergrad How Much Work is Done by a Spring on a Sliding Ladle?
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Undergrad Complex potential / conformal mapping
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High School Is It More Efficient to Leave the Heater On or Turn it Off?
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High School Measuring Viscosity (Viscometer)
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Undergrad Calculating the Number of Rotations for Offset Central Conductor Magnetization
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Undergrad Which Rocket Body Shape is Aerodynamically Superior: Saturn V or N1?
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Undergrad Can Immersion in a Liquid with Equal Body Density Mimic Zero Gravity Experience?
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Graduate Where Does the Energy in Gravitational Attraction Come From?
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Undergrad Does Gravity Affect the Inertia Load in a Dual-Weight Pulley System?
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Undergrad How Does Resistance Affect Power Loss in Electrical Circuits?
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Undergrad Basics of pressure and pascal's principle
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High School How Does Tension Work in a Pulley System?
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High School Query on physics of a tennis ball
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Graduate Time for freefall in a varying gravitational field?
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Graduate Testing Pine Needle Packaging Material: Methodology and Errors
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Undergrad Wind Power Charging: Determining Power Output from Wind Speed
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High School Van Der Graaff generator question.
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Undergrad Has Anyone Invented a Way to Change the Orientation of Force Without a Fulcrum?
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High School Why the earth is zero potential?
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High School Project Involving Newton's Cradle
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High School Why won't pressure on an irregular shape make it move?
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Undergrad Time-Temp relationship with water/ice phase-change
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Undergrad Do spinning objects really lose weight?
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Graduate Can a Water-Filled Flywheel Generate Extra Energy While in Motion?
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Undergrad DDWFTTW Turntable Test: 5 Min Video - Is It Conclusive?
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Undergrad Paint Statue that changes color with weather/airpressure
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High School Where would an ideal wire break?
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High School What is the direction of the Reaction force
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Undergrad Optimal Compression for Soccer Balls: Official Circumference and Pressure
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Graduate Pressure vessel test chamber problem
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Undergrad Linear Collision: Predicting Mass Motion
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High School Calculating Torque for Accelerating a 100kg Bike with 0.722m Wheels
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High School Is the speed of sound faster in an open tube?
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Undergrad Momentum distribution in a first class lever
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Undergrad If you put a fan in front of airplane wings, how powerful would it need to be?
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Graduate Transient inviscid incompressible pipe flow
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Undergrad Momentum transfer in a first class lever
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Undergrad Bernoulli's Principle: Does it affect a non-flowing fluid in a moving container?
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High School Is Energy Required to Ride a Bicycle the Same for Every Rider?
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Undergrad Calculating Surface Strength for Aluminum Foil and Other Materials"
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High School Find the Center of Mass: Tutorials & Problem Solutions
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Undergrad Linear Simple Harmonic Oscillator: period a direct linear proportion to mass?
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Undergrad Find Distance Between Earth & Moon: Apply Circular Motion & Gravitation
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Graduate Energy for pressure equalibrium
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Undergrad Gravity at the centre of the Earth?
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Undergrad How to use flow rates (GPM) and pressure drop to determine if a valve is usefull
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Graduate Gauge invariance of the vector potential
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Undergrad Investigating Stokes Law: Different Formulas, Different Results?
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Undergrad Why are objects with higher center of mass less stable?
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Undergrad Torsional Spring Force Transfer
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Graduate Calculating Displacement with Air Drag: A Differential Equation Approach
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Undergrad Reliable Method for Launching Ping Pong Balls at Varying Speeds?
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High School Proving Mom Wrong - Calculating Airsoft Impacts at 40 Yards (120ft)
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Undergrad Circle Deflection: Calc Outbound Angle After Collision
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Graduate How are Constants for an n-Dimensional Mechanical System Calculated?
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Graduate Two particles accelerating towards each other
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Undergrad Finding the acceleration of a held object suddenly released
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Undergrad Calculate wheel torque based on known Weight, wheel size, acceleration data ?
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High School Help building something that will go back and forth
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High School Higer potential energy->more mass?
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Undergrad How to calculate torque required to accelerate
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High School What r the 2 divisions in mechanics?
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High School How Can You Design an Egg Protective Capsule with Cardboard and a Parachute?
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Undergrad Dirtbike Trajectory: Designing a 200ft Jump Landing
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Graduate Why don't ice cubes spontaneously form in a cup of water
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Graduate Challenge question for physicists
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High School How does one calculate Momentum of an object?
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High School Hourglass on Moon: Flow Speed Compared to Earth
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Undergrad Hole where water cannot escape at certain pressure?
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How do I make a weight feel heavier?
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Undergrad Factors that affect viscosity of incompressible Newtonian fluid?
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High School Which Car Slides First on a Slope?
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Undergrad Answer: Lose Weight or Train? Power Increase Explained
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Undergrad Does Firing a Gun from a Moving Vehicle Affect Bullet Speed?
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High School Suggested title: Where Can I Find Basic Tutorials for Learning Kinematics?
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Undergrad Gravitational Field Strength Calculations with a Pendulum
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Graduate Deriving acceleration in rotating reference frames
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Graduate Momentum of a Classical Wave: Explained
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Undergrad Calculating Tsunami Speed: Physics & German Equations
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Undergrad I need somebody to double check my work I think my math is wrong somewhere
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Undergrad Smooth acceleration, velocity and force?
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Undergrad Does Bernoulli’s principle depend on the observer?
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Undergrad Where does spring (Hooke's law) energy come from?
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High School Centripetal acceleration equation
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Undergrad Question about work and energy transfer
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